Mitch Landrieu
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first heard Mar 2026
last heard 2 Mar
Mitch Landrieu’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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That seems a little bit weird to me because those people are not committing violent crimes.
But we're susceptible to it.
And so we have succumbed to that because it's easy to believe that somebody that does not look like us is going to hurt us.
I'm from New Orleans, in case y'all didn't know that.
And down here, we have a saying I want to give to my dear friend, Eddie Glaude, which is, I feel you.
That's how we respond to people in love.
I feel you.
And the reason I'm saying this is because when some people read his first line, they're going to say, well, if you don't like it, leave.
Right?
I mean, you can see that.
That's coming if you hadn't gotten it already.
And whether you say I can't love America now because she's not perfect or I love America, but I can't wait till she becomes perfect.
There's a strain of understanding that we are an unfinished product.
I believe that the idea of America is a great idea.
All men are created equal.
We come to the table of democracy as equals, but we have not come even close yet.
to perfecting that.
And if you talk to any African-Americans in the South, not all, maybe not 2%, but as I traveled across the South, I'm from here, I've spoken to a lot of people, and you ask in a focus group, how do you feel when you see a pickup truck going down a country road with an American flag on the back of it?
They say, I hide.
Then me, I go, well, wait, why would you be afraid?
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